Integrate Power BI into Your Application: Part 3 – Embed Content
In the part 1, you learned how to register an application to be able to interact with Power BI service and Azure environment. In the part 2, you learned how the authentication process works and how yo…
There are two really great features just added to Power BI that I wanted to blog about: Composite models and Dual storage mode. This is part of the July release for Power BI Desktop and it is in p…
The Business Applications October 2018 Release Notes – From a Power BI perspective
During the keynote of the 2018 Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the new version of the Business Applications Release Notes has been publicly shared. After the first appearance of a public roadm…
Business Application Summit and October 2018 Release Notes
The Microsoft Business Applications Summit was last week and, in conjunction with this event, the October 2018 Release Notes were published. Additionally, an updated version (v 2.0) of the Planning…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (July Desktop Update – Admin APIs & PowerShell for Power BI – Multi Geo Support for Power BI Premium – Power BI & SharePoint – On-Premise Gateway Update for July – Developer Update for July)
Since the Business Applications Summit there has been a whole host of updates to Power BI, so please find all the details below. NOTE: This is once again a longer read with just so many updates tha…
Dataflows, previously called Common Data Service for Analytics as well as Datapools, will be in preview soon and I wanted to explain in this blog what it is and how it can help you get value out of…
Power BI DirectQuery: Automatically Refresh Less Than Every 15 Minutes
Power BI is an extremely user friendly and flexible analytics, reporting, and dashboarding tool. In the past two years, I’ve witnessed the massive adoption of Power BI by my clients and in the marketplace, often replacing more expensive tools due to its ease of use and low barrier to entry.
The #PowerBI July on premises gateway release has one more beautiful feature added that i didn't mention in my last update, the ability to DISTRIBUTE requests across your gateway cluster. Previously only 1 node was used for requests and other was only for HA. pic.twitter.com/txoCvogtkF— Steve Howard (@AngryAnalytics) August 3, 2018
Power BI PowerShell and the Admin API | Guy in a Cube
The Power BI PowerShell and the Admin API allow you to quickly inventory your organization and manage workspaces and access. Forget the hastle of setting up the App registration within Azure Active Directory for API access, the Power BI PowerShell cmdlets take care of it for you. Just install and start using today!
Deploying and managing Microsoft Power BI Premium capacities to your entire organization
Join this session to learn how to plan and manage your Premium capacity for your enterprise. Learn what factors to consider in planning your capacity and how to assess your plan through mechanics and best practices. You will use capacity usage metrics to understand the health and diagnose issues with your capacity. This session will feature example scenarios inspired by real customer scenarios.
Enable your team with new workspace experiences (preview) | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
Today, I’m excited to announce the public preview of a new workspace experience in Power BI. The new workspace experience is designed to enable enterprises to easily manage Power BI content at scale using security groups, distribution lists, and Office 365 Groups. When using the new workspace experiences, you can create App workspaces without creating an underlying Office 365 Group. This blog explains what is changing and how you can plan ahead to be ready.
PowerBI Tiles Pro 101: everything you need to get started
Over 40.000 people and companies all over the world use PowerBI Tiles Pro every day. If you’re looking for more information about it and how to use it, you’ve come to the right place.
Announcing the Power BI Performance Management Solution Template for Azure Application Insights
Today we are excited to announce the release of the Power BI Performance Management solution template for Azure Application Insights. This release brings comprehensive telemetry data into the growing …
Connect with the Microsoft Power BI Team at Power Summit Phoenix October 15-18 in Phoenix, AZ | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
Bringing all Power Platform community together at one special event in Phoenix Oct 15th for collaboration, networking and hands-on learning opportunities
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Working with PowerShell in Power BI – Deprecation of Custom Visuals API 1.1)
Here is the weekly BI-RoundUp and at least this week it will be a quick read! Power BI – Working with PowerShell in Power BI I am not going to go into great detail here, due to Kay giving a detaile…
Power BI now offers enhanced filtering capabilities that let you define more complex report-level filters as query string parameters directly in the report URL, as the following screenshot…
Persistent Filters (Reset to Default) now works with Custom Visuals in the Power BI Service
I was pleasantly surprised today whilst working on an older Power BI Report which had a few Chiclet slicers, and when I changed the selection of the Chiclet slicer I got the option highlighted R…
Power BI App Workspaces: The new experience (August 2018)
In this video, Adam looks at the new experience for Power BI App Workspaces. Adam looks at how they work along with what to expect as it moves towards general availability in the Power BI service. Blo…
New monitoring capabilities for Power BI Premium Capacities
Power BI is about making informed, data driven decisions and we believe this should include how you maintain your assets in Power BI. Now we are very pleased to announce the launch of the Premium…
On-premises data gateway August update is now available
We are happy to announce that the August update for the On-premises data gateway was recently released. This month’s gateway update (version: 14.16.6792.1) continues to add improvements to the custom …
Multi-geo support (preview) for Power BI Embedded in Azure
Multi-national ISVs and organizations building applications and using Power BI Embedded in Azure to embed analytics into their apps, can now deploy their data in multiple regions across the world to c…
A Power BI training or assessment won’t be complete unless I get hammered on the Power BI sharing limitations. So far, I could only mumble something to the extent of “I agree that Power BI sharing suc…
Hybrid Power BI – What is Possible? What Do you Need?
PowerBI.com was introduced as a cloud-based SaaS solution for self-service business intelligence (BI). With its built-in and custom connectors, Power BI datasets can get their data from various source…
BI-RoundUp – Power BI (Report Server Update – Aug 2018 – Ask a Question Generally Available – URL Filter Improvements – Python Episode 1 – Multi-Geo Support for Power BI Embedded)
Here is the weekly roundup, and as always the Power BI team has been very busy over their summer releasing some incredible features. Power BI – Report Server Update Aug 2018 I am not going to go th…
Power BI URL Filter Updates (August 2018) | Guy in a Cube
In this video, Patrick looks at the recent updates to using the Power BI URL Filter. The update to using URL Filter parameters in Power BI include updates to operators along with the ability to use more than strings and spaces in table names! Blog: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-report-url-filter-improvements/ Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-url-filters Demo PBIX: https://guyinacu.be/demos
